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Hello,

Latest testing release of Pardus 2009 is ready ! Like always you can
download this release from Pardus FTP servers at

http://ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/kurulan/2009-RC2/

For a smooth installation experience, please verify the checksum of
the ISO files after you have downloaded, use quality CD’s and burn the
CD in DAO mode with 16x speed.

The International CD of RC2, containing 11 languages to choose from,
is also available in FTP.

The new release contains many bugfixes and enhancements after the RC
release. New release comes with i mproved hardware support for
printers, scanners, webcams, wireless adapters and DVB devices.

Pardus 2009 RC2 has also been improved graphically in every part of
the distribution. All the splash systems from bootloader to login
screen has been improved. Pardus’ icon theme, Milky, created from
scratch by Banu Önal  is now available for our users. New wallpapers
from Gökhan Özkan are also available.

Migration tool, allowing users of Windows to migrate their personal
data now comes with the installation CD.

The new test version of Pardus 2009 contains up to date packages like

KDE 4.2.4
Linux kernel 2.6.30.1
OpenOffice.Org 3.1.0.6
Mozilla Firefox 3.5
Gimp 2.6.6
K3b 1.66
Xorg 1.6.2
Python 2.6.2

and many more in just one CD. Pardus repositories are growing larger
and larger everyday, with the main repo over 2000 packages.

Known issues of Pardus 2009 RC2 are as follows;

- If you select a theme from Kaptan, the icon set is set to Oxygen.
To use the default icon theme, Milky, you can either skip the theme
selection in Kaptan, or change the icon theme to Milky through System
Settings tool.

- Migration tool pops up even if there is no Windows system detected.
You can safely pass the Migration tool by pressing cancel or closing
the application.

We remind you that this is the second testing release for Pardus
2009. Not all of the features and optimizations of the final release
are ready in the beta release. As this release is within the fast
developement cycle, there will be lots of package updates towards the
stable release.

We welcome you to report us the bugs you encounter and feature
requests in our bug tracker http://bugs.pardus.org.tr

Hello,

Second testing release of Pardus 2009 is ready ! Like always you can
download this release from Pardus FTP servers at

http://ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/kurulan/2009-RC/

For a smooth installation experience, please verify the checksum of
the ISO files after you have downloaded, use quality CD’s and burn the
CD in DAO mode with 16x speed.

Highlight of this release is the new International Pardus 2009 ISO.
You can now choose any of the 11 languages to install and enjoy Pardus
2009, all in one CD.

Latest stable release of KDE family version 4.2.4 is has many new
enhancements and bugfixes since the beta release.

The new test version of Pardus 2009 contains up to date packages like

KDE 4.2.4
Linux kernel 2.6.30
OpenOffice.Org 3.1.0.6
Mozilla Firefox 3.5
Gimp 2.6.6
K3b 1.66
Xorg 1.6.2pre
Python 2.6.2

and many more in just one CD. Pardus repositories are growing larger
and larger everyday, with the main repo reaching 2000 packages.

Many more managers we have been using in 2008 are now ready for Pardus
2009. Managers now share the same look and feel, have many
optimizations and new features.

Network Manager Plasmoid has been modified to give more info about the
signal strength, transmission status and is graphically enhanced for
easier use, and now comes as default in the plasmoid panel.

Firewall Manager has been rewritten and went through a refactoring.
Internet connection sharing, rule management and firewall settings are
now much easier to configure.

Display Manager has also hit the 2009 repositories, fully integrated
with the desktop environment.

Package Manager has been through a major refactoring, and is now a lot
faster and easier to use. There are also new fatures like;

- delta package support, decreasing the download size of updates from
40% to 98%
- what is new support, allowing easy access to newly installed packages
- fast! search system which allows searching within packages and their
info

Hardware support of Pardus 2009 has been improved. Support for many
new printers, scanners and webcams and many more has been added, and
many bug fixes are integrated to hardware system.

Known issues of Pardus 2009 RC are as follows;

- On some wireless adapters, signal strength can be detected less in
Network Manager Plasmoid

We remind you that this is the second testing release for Pardus
2009. Not all of the features and optimizations of the final release
are ready in the beta release. As this release is within the fast
developement cycle, there will be lots of package updates towards the
stable release.

We welcome you to report us the bugs you encounter and feature
requests in our bug tracker http://bugs.pardus.org.tr

Hello,

Second testing release of Pardus 2009 is ready ! Like always you can
download this release from Pardus FTP servers at

http://ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/kurulan/2009-Beta/

For a smooth installation experience, please verify the checksum of
the ISO files after you have downloaded, use quality CD’s and burn the
CD in DAO mode with 16x speed.

Latest stable release of KDE family version 4.2.4 is available with
enhancements for Pardus. Pardus 2009 Beta comes with many new
features of base tools PiSi and COMAR, the installation program YALI,
Pardus manager family and KAPTAN.

The new version contains up to date packages like

KDE 4.2.4
Linux kernel 2.6.30_rc8
OpenOffice.Org 3.1.0.6
Mozilla Firefox 3.5 RC1
Gimp 2.6.6
Xorg 1.6.2pre
Python 2.6.2

and many more in just one CD.

Many more managers we have been using in 2008 are now ready for Pardus
2009. Managers now share the same look and feel, have many
optimizations and new features. Also there is a new tool in town,
System Manager, which can be used to manage system wide preferences
easily through the graphical interface.

Package Manager has been through a major refactoring, and is now a lot
faster and easier to use. There are also new fatures like;

- delta package support, decreasing the download size of updates from
40% to 98%
- what is new support, allowing easy access to newly installed packages

With the Beta release, new Pardus 2009 graphics are slowly hitting
the repos. Some of Cihan ?ncebel’s photographs are available for our
users both in standard size and widescreen size.

From Alpha release to Beta, there have been many more optimizations
and features are integrated to Pardus 2009, including improved
installation speed in YALI, language and desktop setting fixes in
KAPTAN, etc.

Known issues of Pardus 2009 Beta is as follows;

- Depending on the locale, the time of the system may be set different
during installation.
- With some ethernet devices, if the connection is set to get the IP
address atomatically, the connection may not be established at first
try, but is successful after a retry.

We remind you that this is the second testing release for Pardus
2009. Not all of the features and optimizations of the final release
are ready in the beta release. As this release is within the fast
developement cycle, there will be lots of package updates towards the
stable release.

We welcome you to report us the bugs you encounter and feature
requests in our bug tracker http://bugs.pardus.org.tr

Hello,

The very first testing release of Pardus 2009 is ready, supporting English and
Turkish languages. As always, you can fetch the ISO files from Pardus ftp
server;

http://ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/kurulan/2009-Alpha/

For a smooth installation experience, please verify the checksum of the ISO
files after you have downloaded, use quality CD’s and burn the CD in DAO mode
with 16x speed.

2009 Alpha comes with latest stable KDE release, KDE integrated Pardus tools,
improved hardware detection, the new generation EXT4 filesystem, latest
versions of the packages in our repositories such as;

KDE 4.2.3
Linux kernel 2.6.30_rc7
Openoffice office suite 3.1rc6
Firefox Web browser 3.5beta4
Gimp 2.6.6
Xorg 1.6.2pre
Python 2.6.2
GCC 4.3.3
GLIBC 2.9

and many more in a single CD.

Known problems;

- In the installation process, the installation of packages starts slow. This
does not affect the installation though

- Kaptan comes in English when the installation is started in Turkish

- On some Intel video cards graphical installation may not show up. To work
around it you can start the installation in safe graphical mode

We remind you that this is the very first testing release for Pardus 2009.
System stability may be broken. If you want to try the testing releases make
sure to backup important data. As this release is within the fast developement
cycle, there will be lots of package updates towards the stable release.

We welcome you to report us the bugs you encounter and feature requests in
our bug tracker http://bugs.pardus.org.tr

Hello,

We have prepared a new developer ISO [1] for Pardus 2009 and named it
prealpha2. It still is ”2008 installation system installing 2009
packages”. If you want to work on the developement of 2009 just install
the CD and do a ”pisi up”.

To make the package merging process systematically we have put a
roadmap to kdepim package. Once we are able to install a desktop system
where we can send mails, I believe we will be able to progress much
faster. To see the roadmap check the urgentpackages [2] file, and if
you have a package in that list please prepare it ”under an 2009
system” and merge it to pardus/2009/stable.

If your packages are not in the list, you don’t need to wait for the
list to complete. You can merge your packages as soon as you are
sure they are ready for 2009.

After the list is finished, we will put another target to reach.